St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-26
THE HOLY EUCHARIST.
Rev. Father Timothy breaches of
the Eucharist to a Large Con-
gregatiOn.

Rev. Father Timothy breaches Of
the Eucharist to a Large Con-
gregation.
High mass was celebrated at the
cathedral yesterday at 10 a. m. Father
Gibbons was the celebrant and Fathers
Timothy and Fitzpatrick deacon and
sub-deacon. Father Timothy delivered
the sermon of the day, taking for his
subject 1.-The Eucharist" He said: In
my last sermon / spoke on the incarna-
ton of our divine Lord, and this leads me
naturally to that second great mystery.
the blessed Eucharist, which is but
continuation of the former mystery.
Christ himself instituted the eucharist
on the night before His passion. On
that night, being seated with his twelve
apostles, our Lord took bread into His
hands and, having given thanks, He
broke it and gave, it to His disciples.
saying: This is my body which is
given for you; this do for a commemora-
the chalice also, after he
had supped, saying: This is the
chalice, the new testament in my blood,
which shall be shed for you" Thus,
my brethren, our Divine Savior. making
use of his sovereign power, changed the
bread into his body, and the wine into
his blood, and thus gave himself to men
for their spiritual food.
Not only did our Lord change the
bread and wine, but he gave the same
power to his disciples when he said do
this in commemoration of me, until
come in Judgment" aud this same
power given to the disciples of old has
been passed Oh to their successors
in the priesthood. But philosophers saw
the words ''This is my body and this is
my blood" were used in figurative
sense. Not so, our Lord speaks of a
literal, not of a metaphorical eating of
his flesh and drinking of his
blood. How were the words of
Christ received by the Jews? They ex-
claimed: "H0w can this man give us
His flesh. to eat?" WhereupOn our
Lord, instead of explaining that He
meant only to say that they must be-
lieve in His doctrine, repeated his
former assertion i'll the most solemn
and emphatic manner: ''Amen, amen.
say unto you, unless you eat of the
flesh of the Son of Man and drink His
blood you have not life in you.'' Surely
this transubstantiation is not impossi-
BILE. Cannot He who changed water
into wine at the marriage feast of
Cana, cannot He change one sub
stance into another? And when He
says He did who will doubt it? Phil
OsopherS say they cannot understand
the mystery contained in the eucharist.
Neitbsr can they understand the mys-
terry OF the trinity nor of the incarna-
ton. They reason in the natural order,
whereas these mysteries are of the SUI
pernatural order. Our Lord had uWo-
fold object in inStituting this sacrament.
First-That He might continue in low
ing intercourse with His children on
earth.
Second-That His children might have
spiritual food to sustain them in this
earthly pilgrimage. What consolation
1t is to know that we can enter into the
encharlStlc presence at any moment.
All the sacramentS sanctify the SOU. but
che blessed eucharist sacrament sancti-
heS not only the soul but the body. The
woman of old who was troubled for
years with an incurable disease. was
healed by merely touching the hem of
our Lords garment; how pure i'm BODY
and soul then must we not be who par
take of the adorable body and blood of
Jesus Christ! The flames of concu-
piscence existent in the flesh are to a
large extent eXtinguiShed by partakinp
of the eucharist. The germ of immor,
taiity is placed there instead, so that the
body as we'll as the soul becomes Sancti-
fed. The reception of the eucharist is
not a mere transient meeting between
our Lord and ourselves, but veritable
espousal.
The speaker concluded by exhorting
his hearers to so regulate their lives